Re: M-TH: Livingstone stands in London

[Jim heartfield]

Livingstone's campaign is pointedly anti-political. He has already said
that 'he's not running as a socialist', and appeals instead to a 'kick
the bums out mood', telling the NME awards "I prefer to be here having a
good laugh rather than sitting in the House of Commons listening to that
lot drone on." Livingstone is more Ross Perot than George Lansbury.

In message <007f01bf89f9$0f4f9900$08fe869f@oemcomputer>, George
Pennefather <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>Three cheers for Hugh. What would we all do without him. 
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>Hugh: It's not a static question. It's a question of a movement being built
>around Livingstone's candidacy that might well be able to use a few
>fundamental democratic, anti-bourgeois slogans to gather behind it all the
>popular disaffection and hatred for New Labour's neo-liberal Tory policies
>that exists in London. 
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>Warm regards
>George Pennefather
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>Hugh: It's not a static question. It's a question of a movement being built
>around Livingstone's candidacy that might well be able to use a few
>fundamental democratic, anti-bourgeois slogans to gather behind it all the
>popular disaffection and hatred for New Labour's neo-liberal Tory policies
>that exists in London. The outcome in terms of votes cast and local
>government measures will be less interesting than the shift produced in the
>balance of forces between a radicalizing mass movement and all the various
>shades of manipulative self-seekers in the Labour party machine and
>Livingstone's immediate entourage. Anyone seriously interested in building
>a solid revolutionary working-class party and solid revolutionary
>working-class movements will want to get stuck in here. Anyone not seeing
>this as a heaven-sent opportunity will earn themselves the title of
>armchair pedants at worst or sponsors of individual anarchistic heroics at
>best.
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>It's also obvious from the red-baiting that's getting started now, and the
>horror felt by Livingstone himself at being taken seriously when he pays
>lip-service to socialism, that the intervention of revolutionary Marxists
>in this campaign will not be easy. In other words, a real and exciting
>challenge lies ahead.
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>Cheers,
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>Hugh
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Jim heartfield


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